Port of L A s Seroka on Sustained Import Surge, Supply Chain Reaction railwayage.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from railwayage.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Container ships are stacking up again off Southern California’s jammed ports, as a flood of imports and logjams in domestic logistics networks hit operations at the biggest U.S. gateway for seaborne trade. Thirty-seven container ships were anchored off the adjacent ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in recent days, according to the Marine Exchange .
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FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS By Noe Garcia | Thursday, July 29, 2021
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Port of Los Angeles saw another new record in the month of June with more than 875,000 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) processed. The TEUs represented the port’s busiest June ever and closed the fiscal year at 10,879,383 TEUs a new record for any Western Hemisphere port. The June numbers were also a 27 percent increase over last year’s 8,560,882 TEUs.
“Together we’ve kept the port operational during the pandemic, dock work shifts have increased, and berth ship productivity has jumped 50 percent since pre-pandemic numbers,” said Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka. “I’m so proud of the extraordinary work accomplished under these challenging circumstances.”
By HENG WEILI in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-07-27 09:06 Share CLOSE Cargos are unloaded from a container ship at the container terminal of the Lianyungang Port in East China s Jiangsu province, on Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Imports, exports between two countries boom in first half of 2021
Looking at the latest China-US trade figures, fueled by voracious consumer demand, it would be hard to tell the two countries have been involved in a trade standoff for over three years. We said during the trade war the global economy would continue to grow and prosper, and it has. China was, and remains, our largest trading partner, accounting for about 60 percent of containerized imports and 30 percent of exports in 2020, Noel Hacegaba, deputy executive director of the Port of Long Beach in Southern California told China Daily.